There’s a great deal of interest in making team sport athletes faster sprinters. There are a lot of approaches to doing this from speed training to strength training to plyometrics. Speed training...
Hamstring injuries during sprinting are thought to be caused by the hamstrings being pulled too much during the lengthening phase either when the lower leg is uncoupling from the upper leg or...
We currently think we know a great deal about hamstring injuries. This drives how we design strength and conditioning programs to prevent them. For example, I recently had a conversation with a...
When it comes to the training of speed, we have a number of interesting tools. These include tools that make sprinting more difficult (i.e. resisted sprinting) and tools that allow the athlete...